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Lecture -14
Meditation is the most important feature of our system. It is said to be different from what other schools try to make out. Concentration naturally follows from meditation. Other systems insist upon concentration of the mind by individual effort at one point or on an object. Meditation on the other hand, is the fixing up of our mind on a particular point in the system. We prefer the heart. The heart is the most important part of the human nature and it is the pumping station of all blood to all the parts of the body and therefore, if we meditate on the heart, the energy that has been introduced to the heart by the Master in Pranahuti goes to every cell in the body and purifies the entire system. The mind is said to have its seat in the heart and almost all our feelings of sorrow or joy, anxiety or calmness, are experienced in the heart. Master says that it is better you meditate on the heart at the point where you feel the heartbeats. Of course, sometimes we do feel the heart-beat and sometimes we do not. But suppose we take up the point where the beats are, I believe it is where you find the functions of the pumping takes place and you have the awareness of how it is working in the system. Other systems try to tell us, especially the Bhagavad Gita is quoted in this connection as stating that you should concentrate at the Nasagra or between the eyebrows. Some other people also speak of concentrating on the Naval Centre. But the Master says that concentration or meditation on the naval centre means nothing at all, except that it complicates tension, whereas the concentration on the Broomadhya, otherwise called Trikuti, requires great effort on your part; and surely in this system, the work of the Master is very important. The work of the Master is to introduce the Pranahuti into the heart. Can he do it at other points in the body? Yes. He can. But then, without the purification of the mind, which is usually seated in the heart, you cannot do anything with the whole organism.
Firstly, we have set up a series of habits of mind and the roaming of the mind is also a habit of the mind, which has been developed by us. It is not its usual nature. It is not natural for the mind to run about. We are told that it is natural for the mind to run about and therefore, to kill the mind is very important. That is what most of the Yogic systems are trying to do. How to kill mind? Now, that is not natural. Why this view then does prevail?